Anniversaries 7 December
Birth
![William Francis Patrick Napier photo]()
Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian
1785–1860
![Leopold Kronecker photo]()
German mathematician who worked on number theory and algebr…
1823–1891
![Johan Huizinga photo]()
Dutch historian
1872–1945
![Willa Cather photo]()
American writer and novelist
1873–1947
![Zechariah Chafee photo]()
American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian
1885–1957
![Heywood Broun photo]()
American sportswriter
1888–1939
![Gabriel Marcel photo]()
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Ch…
1889–1973
![Stuart Davis photo]()
American painter
1892–1964
![Wanda Toscanini photo]()
Italian musician
1907–1998
![Leigh Brackett photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1915–1978
![Victor Kiam photo]()
American businessman, American football executive
1926–2001
![Henepola Gunaratana photo]()
Sri Lankan Buddhist monk
1927
![Noam Chomsky photo]()
american linguist, philosopher and activist
1928
![Don W. Wilson photo]()
Archivist of the United States
1942
![Harry Chapin photo]()
American musician
1942–1981
![James Rivière photo]()
Italian Jewellery and sculptor
1949
![Tom Waits photo]()
American singer-songwriter and actor
1949
![Radhanath Swami photo]()
Gaudiya Vaishnava guru
1950
![Susan Collins photo]()
United States Senator from Maine
1952
![Joshua David Stone photo]()
American writer
1953–2005
![Susan Minot photo]()
American author and screenwriter
1956
![Larry Bird photo]()
basketball player and coach
1956
![John Lee Ka-chiu photo]()
Chief Executive-elect of Hong Kong
1957
![Tom Frieden photo]()
American physician, President and Chief Executive Officer a…
1960
![Imad Mughniyah photo]()
Lebanese militant, head of security for Hezbollah
1962–2008
![Michael Punke photo]()
American jurist and lawyer
1964
![Adrianus Sunarko photo]()
Indonesian Roman Catholic bishop
1966
![Sawao Yamanaka photo]()
Japanese singer-songwriter
1968
![Patrice O'Neal photo]()
American stand-up comedian, radio personality, and actor
1969–2011
![Larisa Alexandrovna photo]()
Ukrainian-American journalist, essayist, poet
1971
![Ali Raymi photo]()
Boxing Knockout Artist
1973–2015
![Terrell Owens photo]()
former American football wide receiver
1973
![Georges Laraque photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1976
![Sara Bareilles photo]()
American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
1979
![John Terry photo]()
English association football player
1980
![Yuzuru Hanyu photo]()
Japanese figure skater (1994-)
1994
Death
![Marcus Tullius Cicero photo]()
Roman philosopher and statesman
-106–-43 BC
![Gabriel Biel photo]()
German canon regular and scholar
1418–1495
![Algernon Sidney photo]()
British politician and political theorist
1623–1683
![David Jewett Waller, Sr. photo]()
Pennsylvanian minister and civic leader
1815–1893
![Chilton A. White photo]()
American politician
1826–1900
![Julius Bahnsen photo]()
German philosopher
1830–1881
![Thomas Brackett Reed photo]()
U.S. Representative from Maine, and Speaker of the House
1839–1902
![James Whitbread Lee Glaisher photo]()
English mathematician and astronomer
1848–1928
![Nicholas Murray Butler photo]()
American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
1862–1947
![Laurette Taylor photo]()
American stage and silent film actress
1884–1946
![Robert Graves photo]()
English poet and novelist
1895–1985
![Thornton Wilder photo]()
American playwright and novelist
1897–1975
![Joan Bennett photo]()
American actress
1910–1990
![Jeane Kirkpatrick photo]()
American diplomat and Presidential advisor
1926–2006
![Frank Oski photo]()
American pediatrician
1932–1996
![Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan photo]()
Pakistani Sufi leader
1934–2017
![Reinaldo Arenas photo]()
Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
1943–1990
